Word: toyotas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practice that San Francisco 49er Coach Bill Walsh had in mind for the man who quarterbacked his unheralded team to victory in January's Super Bowl. Still, Joe Montana's famed cool-underpressure should get a pressurized workout at this weekend's pro/celebrity race during the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Montana, 25 has been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones...
FIFTY-FOUR WEEKS AGO, 376 days ago, 12 1/2 months ago, three American nuns and an American missionary left El Salvador International Airport in a white Toyota van, bound, as it turned out, for a shallow grave 15 miles to the northeast. Though the National Guard had claimed thousands of victims in the years and months before, the point blank shots to the back of the head that killed the four churchwomen were, for the war in El Salavador, the shots heard round the world, or at least the Western Hemisphere...
...White House had to make still another awkward admission last week: Allen, a former consultant to Nissan Motor Corp., which manufactures Datsun automobiles, had met with Takase and the president of Toyota Motor Sales last March at a time when the Administration was deciding whether to seek lower import quotas for Japanese cars. The next day Allen attended a meeting with Reagan and Japan's Foreign Minister, Masayoshi Ito, to discuss import quotas. Worried about a possible conflict of interest, White House officials asked Allen to review his records for past contacts with Japanese businessmen...
...last week's show in Tokyo, new cars were displayed on rotating platforms, while miniskirted models recited memorized sales spiels. Spectators gawked, for example, at a four-wheel-drive Toyota outfitted for bird watching that had a roof-mounted camera and sound equipment to record birdcalls...
...Toyota showed the shape of things to come in Japanese cars. Whenever a different driver enters the automobile, he inserts a plastic card in the dashboard that adjusts the seats, air conditioning and mirror to his specific desires. Shock absorbers automatically regulate the car's suspension to accommodate the number of passengers. Once the car is under way, a radar-activated cruise-control senses vehicles ahead and applies the brakes when necessary. In addition, an ultrasonic system warns the driver of any obstructions up to ten feet behind the vehicle. If it starts to rain, electronic windshield wipers adjust...